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Do you know of Lamont ???

This page is an orphan - a placeholder until we can discover more about Lamont. When we encounter a name that is new to us, we add it to our Gazetteer with the hope that we'll discover more information in the future. Such is the case with Lamont.

Our sources for Lamont (see Mentions and References below) indicate that it was a community with a post office by the same name. Unfortunately our sources aren't clear about the location of Lamont other than they indicate that Lamont would be found somewhere in Butler County, Alabama.

From the Blevins / Hellbock List: The post office opened  in 1886 and closed  in 1901.

This entry could have originated in error. It might be that a source had a misprint, was simply wrong or we made a transcription error while referencing it. Many of the documents we reference are from the 1800s and the early 1900s, with some easier to read than others.

Part of the difficulty in identifying whether a name is a post office or a community lies with how Post Offices were named. We've prepared an article with our understanding of how post offices were named: Naming of Post Offices.

Communities Also Named Lamont ...

We found 29 communities that share the name Lamont.

There is one other community in Alabama which is also named Lamont.

Beyond Alabama, we know of another 28 communities that are located throughout in the United States and Canada. Of these 28 communities, 28 are located in the United States and one is in Canada.

  • Communities Located In Alabama ...
    • Marshall County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alabama community of Lamont [Marshall County].
  • Communities Elsewhere In North America ...
    • Alaska
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alaska community of Lamont.
    • Alberta
      • Please visit our profile page for the Alberta community of Lamont.
    • Arkansas
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Arkansas community of Lamont [Grant County].
    • California
      • Kern County
      • Please visit our profile page for the California community of Lamont [Kern County].
    • Florida
      • Hillsborough County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lamont [Hillsborough County].
      • Jefferson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Florida community of Lamont [Jefferson County].
    • Georgia
      • Lamar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lamont [Lamar County].
      • Monroe County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Georgia community of Lamont [Monroe County].
    • Idaho
      • Fremont County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Idaho community of Lamont [Fremont County].
    • Iowa
      • Buchanan County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Iowa community of Lamont [Buchanan County].
    • Kansas
      • Greenwood County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lamont [Greenwood County].
      • Montgomery County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lamont [Montgomery County].
      • Sedgwick County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information. For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the Kansas community of Lamont [Sedgwick County].
    • Kentucky
      • McCracken County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lamont [McCracken County].
      • Perry County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Kentucky community of Lamont [Perry County].
    • Michigan
      • Ottawa County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Michigan community of Lamont [Ottawa County].
    • Mississippi
      • Bolivar County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Mississippi community of Lamont [Bolivar County].
    • Nebraska
      • Dundy County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Nebraska community of Lamont [Dundy County].
    • New York
      • Wyoming County
      • Please visit our profile page for the New York community of Lamont [Wyoming County].
    • North Carolina
      • Guilford County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the North Carolina community of Lamont [Guilford County].
    • Oklahoma
      • Grant County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Oklahoma community of Lamont [Grant County].
    • Pennsylvania
      • Elk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Pennsylvania community of Lamont [Elk County].
    • Tennessee
      • Robertson County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Tennessee community of Lamont [Robertson County].
    • Texas
      • Polk County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Texas community of Lamont [Polk County].
    • Washington
      • Whitman County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Washington community of Lamont [Whitman County].
    • West Virginia
      • Marshall County
      • We found mention of this community, but have little information.<1> For the information that we do have, please visit our profile page for the West Virginia community of Lamont [Marshall County].
    • Wisconsin
      • Lafayette County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wisconsin community of Lamont [Lafayette County].
    • Wyoming
      • Carbon County
      • Please visit our profile page for the Wyoming community of Lamont [Carbon County].

Miscellaneous References and Mentions for Lamont ...

We've created the following list to keep track of the sources that proved useful in adding to our knowledge about Lamont:

Found in a comprehensive list of Post Offices that was created by Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<2>

Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895)
Published by Rand McNally & Co.

A note taken from the Shipper's Guide for Lamont - Services available: had a Post Office, no Railroad mentioned

More Orphans in  Butler County ...

Can you help?

As we explained above, when we encounter a name that might be a community or a post office we add it to our Gazetteer. If we have little information to go with the name, we call them Orphans. Below are Orphans that we believe to be located in Butler County.

Bushy CreekOdom
  
Corry'sPontus
  
DockRigsby
DunhamRunnville
  
EalumsSouth Butler
EarltonStringfellow
EdnaSummit
EmmaSybil
  
ForestTill
Fort Worth 
 Urbanity
Lumber Mills 
 Vanpelt
MusselVirdie
  

Footnotes ...

<1>If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer as a placeholder. As we find more information about that community, it will be added to our Gazetteer.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Bird Creek to see Pete ... Bird Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Lamont could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.
<2>A copy of their list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/









 

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